The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

West Point, Ga, can boast or more men Welen-
ing 200 pounds than any town in this country.
THE Cologne Gazette says that Germany has
profited by the Boulanger craze, for from Co
logne no less than 10000 pictures of Boulanger
was sent to Paris, which sold readily at EFF.
| apiece.
In SPAIN 90, COO bells send forth their summons
to prayers from the steepes of $4,000 churches
| The weight of these bells amounts to something
like $4,000 of Spanish pounds, and the value
about 100000 francs.
THE Empress Elizabeth, of Austria, always
takes the either with her whenever she visits her
mother, the Duchess Budovico of Bavaria who
| is very fond of hearing her daughter perform
! on that instrument. The Empress received the
| first instruction in either playing from her
| father, and subsequently took lessons or the
| first masters of Vienna.
1.-THE facts are incontestabIe that the negro
laborer is far less competent now in the simple
| manual execution than he was twenty-five years
ago" the Birmingham (Ala) Age thinks.
| Negro plowmen, carpenters, blacksmlths,
| bricklayers, coach drivers, cooks, etc, are
not to be compared now with the standard of
the race in those occupations in 1860. We DO
not risk anything, therefore, in saying there is
wider divergence of the races now than ever
before
s. S. HoLLINGswoRTH, of Vinccnnes, Ind, the
defaulting treasurer of Knox county, who stole
WdS sentenced a year ago W VII &C yC"t .
in prison. Since Warden PattonS accession, he
has been allowed to ride about town in buggy
alone, enter barrooms, smoke cigars, walk on
the streets, and appear to all iutentS like free
man. He has been arrested at the instance OF
the indignant citizens and lodged in the city
Jail. Warden Patton was also arrested FOR al
lowing convict to be at large.
A NEWSPAPER at Bogota reports that the gold
which is now being dug out of the ancient GENE
teries at Hilandia and other places near Pereira,
in Cauca, has led more than 900 workmen to
flock to that spot and town has sprung up
there within the past four years which now con-
tains more than 10000 inhabitants. These
people are almost all AntioquanS, and the
majority of them have obtained sufficient gold
to render themselves and their families lnde
pendent of work the remainder of their lives.
YOUNG Persian nobleman by the name of
Hassan Dshenedelei arrived recently at Warsaw,
after travelling the entire distance from Teheran
to Warsaw on foot. He had made a wager to
walk from Teheran to Paris in eight months,
and has so far consumed six and half months
on his trip From Moscow to Warsaw he walked
along the railroad track He has no travelling
companions. the guarantee for the faithful per
Torrance of his undertaking lies i'll sacred
oath taken by him before starting which binds
him to use no conveyance of any kind
A RECOGNIZED authority on sugar estimates
that the worlds production of the article in
1885, 81 is about 440, 900 tons larger than that of
the preceding year. He thinks however,
that this fact will be compensated by an in
creased consumption, most of which he credits
to Europe and North America The stocks at
the beginning of last July visible supply are
stated to have been about $4,000 tons, against
$4,000 tons one year previously, and 960,OO0
tons two years ago. After making several
minor allowances, which need not be stated in
detail, 1t is estimated that the total stocks were
az, 900 tons less this midsummer than they were
at the same date in 1885.
THE Government of Colombia is authorized
to grant reward of $4,000 in silver to every
one who discovers a new merchantable article
of export. Under this law Senior Rafael Vane-
gas has filed two claims, one for the discovery
and employment of a valuable medicinal plant;
the second for the discovery that wild cocoa
trees exist in profuson in the virgin forests,
which stretches from the waters of the Aria1
down to the rivero Guayabero. If investigation
should prove the correctness of this statement,
it will throw millions of dollars annually into
Colombia, and place a valuable article within
the reach of many who now deprived of the
use of it owing to the price.
AN interesting table has been compiled by the
Rdil,Cdy Age of the most destructive railway
accidents for the past forty years. From this it
appears that the number of very serious acct
| dents in the United States was edualled, if not
exceeded, by those of foreign countries. For ex
ample, those in which sixty or more persons
were killed were in America as follows July II,
1856, Philadelphia and Reading railroad, at
Camphill, Pa, collision. &c killed, 100 injured
July IS, 1854, Erie railroad, at Port Jervis, n.
Y. head collision, go killed and 100 injured; Dec
| %, 1876, Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, at
Ashtabula, o. broken bridge, about so killed,
60 injured; and the Chatsworth disaster with n
killed and 1870 injured On foreign railways
during the same period there were the follow
ing: March II, 1857, Great Western of Canada
at the Des Jardines canal, by broken bridge,
60 killed 80 injured; June %. 1854, Grand Trunk
of Canada, at Riehelieu river, by an open draw
bridge. IS killed, hundreds injured; Dec. 30
1879. North British railway, at the Tay Bridge,
by deraiment, "A killed; June %, 1881, Morelis
railroad, at San Antonio river, by broken
bridge 200 killed. June s, 1885, at Kosleff, Rus
STA, train derailed by wreckers, 20 killed and
wounded.
THE late Agostino Depretis, Prime Minister of
Italy. man of amiable temperament, as
this story win show. He used to snore loudly.
Once when at Casale, he lodged at the Rosa
Rosa, a second-rate inn. An ex-offi cial, who
was at Casale for the purpose of applying for
employment, had room next TO that occupied
by the Minister. Being disturbed during the
night by the loud snoring of his neighbor be
first threw his boots at the wall, and then pro-
ceeded to complain in rather iusolent terms,
loud enough to penetrate into the next room.
Signor Depretis apologized, and in order to be
no longer a disturbance. lighted his candle and
began to read book. The next morning the
Minister sent waiter to make his excuses to
his neigbor. Who is the beast?' asked the
ex-off1cial. THE beast is the Minister Sgnor
Depretis," replied the waiter. The poor ex-
official almost had an apoplectc fit. He, in
turn, sent innumerable excuses to Signor De-
pretis, who, receiving him afterward. told him
that he should be employed as he desired,
more especially" he continued, because last
night you caused me to read something had
never had an opportunity of reading before"
What that, may l asky'' THE Dame aux
Camelias'," replied the Minister.
The Hon. Francis Wharton's Digest of the
International Law of the United States re-
ceves high praise from one of the best of the
English quarterlies The Edinburgh. The re-
viewer cites it as another example of the
superiority of American legal literature over
that of England, and commends the action of
Congress in ordering the compilation of this
volume He laments the absence of a similar
record from official archives of the diplomacy
of England, and frankly comedies the inferiority
of his country in legal writings and especially
the literature of international law. Dr. Whar-
ton he compliments iuu nmeasured terms say
ing that the Digest is another volume added to
the list of standard works which are chiefly as
SOclated with the names of Kent, Story and
Wheaton. The review which follows this
tribute to the learned compiler is a critical ac
count of American diplomacy from the English
point of view with severe structures upon var-
Gus efforts of the State Department TO evade
the Clayton Bulwer treaty. Dir. Wharton re-
ceives throughout most generous treatment
the reviewer apparently being lost in admira.
ton of his grasp of the subject. The disputa-
tiOuS Senators who considered the nfintins ~